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Definition of Caboodle
1. Noun. Any collection in its entirety. "She bought the whole caboodle"
Definition of Caboodle
1. n. The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.
Definition of Caboodle
1. Noun. any large collection of things or people ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caboodle
1. a collection [n -S] - See also: collection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caboodle
Literary usage of Caboodle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"caboodle is general throughout the States, and has now almost completely supplanted
BOODLE (qv), which is usually applied in a different sense. ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"The whole caboodle is a common expression, meaning the whole lot. It is used in
all the Northern States as well as in some of the Southern. ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"caboodle. Company; " crowd. ... 1891 There ain't one of the hull caboodle but
what despises an caboodle of them. ..."
4. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"kit and caboodle : the same as kit and boodle. Philadelphia. (AC Garrett. ...
64, and the Century dictionary, sv caboodle.'] la (b). ..."
5. Our Unseen Guest (1920)
"And the answer Avas: "The whole kit and caboodle are here, greatly excited, and
raising a ... I asked Stephen why he didn't "bounce the kit and caboodle. ..."
6. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine by Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (1894)
"I looked hack and saw the whole caboodle of snakes having a grand old ... "And the
whole caboodle wouldn' amount to shucks without her, would it? ..."
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